A Personal Record

Zdzislaw Najder is Professor of English at the University of Opole, Poland. J. H. Stape is Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London and has taught at universities in England, Canada, France and the Far East. Author of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (2007) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996), he has edited several of Conrad's texts and is co-editor of Conrad's collected letters (Volumes 7 and 9). He has also published on E. M. Forster, William Golding, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, Angus Wilson and Virginia Woolf.

• Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; A Personal Record; Author's Note; A Familiar Preface; The Texts: An Essay; A Personal Record; Serialization; Book Editions; 'A Familiar Preface'; Copy-texts; Emendation; The 'Author's Note'; The Cambridge Texts; Apparatus; Emendation and Variation; Emendations of Accidentals; End-of-line Word-division; Appendix; Extracts from Tadeusz Bobrowski's Pamietnik; Notes.